Marian André

That was not planned but... let's do it and ship ⛵️🏴‍☠️ It will be awesome. ship-or-die.com/u/marian-andr @marclou @jackfriks 💪

@marclou @jackfriks nice one !

@marianandre @jackfriks aye aye

i made an app that feeds you to the sharks if you don't publicly launch your own product in 30 days. no more of this: "dude i just 100x'ed my workflow with this new AI model"... meanwhile... 0 projects launched 0 revenue 0 users 100 x 0 = still 0. it's time to go from 0 to 1. it's time to: SHlPORDIE.COM 🏴‍☠️. ship a new product every 30 days until one changes your life or... DIE, in the app, and get kicked from the community forever while being publicly humiliated. no refunds for those who fail to ship. custom trophies to be collected for those who succeed. if you DO ship, you also get to remain in a community of people who actually ship things and get users ++ revenue. sidenote: i'm really excited to see if this can be the push someone needs like how @marclou's shipfast project pushed me and is the entire reason i have a $35K MRR solo operated SaaS now and many other successful mobile apps GLHF, DON'T DIE, and KEEP GOING!! i've never taken a launch this legit so let's see how it goes :)

@sflorimm Congrats, solid start

I launched my 2nd app on 13th of May, today it reached 15 premium users and $232 MRR. Let's build until we make it.

Exploring an idea for solo SaaS founders. Question: If you’re running a SaaS mostly alone, where do your important signals live right now? Revenue, product analytics, support, emails, feedback, churn, roadmap, notes… Do you feel like you have a clear weekly view of what actually matters?

Exploring an idea for solo SaaS founders. Question: If you’re running a SaaS mostly alone, where do your important signals live right now? Revenue, product analytics, support, emails, feedback, churn, roadmap, notes… Do you feel like you have a clear weekly view of what actually matters?

@DanielSmidstrup Exploring, thinking, analysing

@marianandre How are you finding the first issue?

Hey founders ! Looking to connect with people building in: 🍽️ SaaS 🚀 Tech 📲 Automation 🧠 AI tools 📱 Product Development 🔥 Web APP 💻 Devs Drop what you're working on 👇

@OpenPanelDev It works. Thanks guys 💪

@marianandre This is solved now

@OpenPanelDev Hey 👋, it seems the "Connect Google Search Console" is broken :) Anyone else is facing the same issue?

@sickdotdev Cursor

Choose only one: - Cursor - Claude Code - Codex

@pcshipp Getting new users for sure

Hey solo founders, what’s the hardest part? - user retention - conversions - getting new users

But if you don't give up, it pays back. (data from TrustMRR.com/stats)

What is the best memory addon for Hermes Agent from @NousResearch ? #ai #hermes

[Day 10] Building in public CarPappers.com Today I changed the outbound angle. So, instead of presenting CarPappers mainly as a tool for used car professionals, I’m now testing a simpler positioning: A digital health record for cars. Something useful not only for dealers, but for anyone who owns, buys, sells, or maintains a car. The idea is to make the vehicle history easier to understand, easier to keep, and easier to share. I contacted 15 additional prospects today. Much fewer than yesterday, but they were much more qualified. The goal now is not volume at all costs. It’s to see whether a clearer angle + better targeted prospects can create more traction. Let’s see what comes back.

[Day 9] Building In Public CarPappers.com Today I contacted 60 new prospects. The result so far is not what I expected. Since the beginning of the outbound phase, I’ve received only one reply. And it was negative. I honestly thought I would get more feedback by now, even if it was just “not interested”, “wrong timing”, or “this is not useful for us”. But this is also part of the process. The product idea may be unclear. The target may not be precise enough. The email angle may not be strong enough. Or maybe cold outbound is just going to take more volume and more iteration than expected. Tomorrow I’ll keep testing the positioning around CarPappers as a digital health record for cars, and I’ll try to make the ask even easier to answer. Still early. Still learning.

@theuniverseson @NousResearch @openclaw @papercliping Nothing was really broken. But setting up between the AI tools <> Notion <> Gmail was complicated and took a lot of time. In fact, I spent more time on it than if I had done everything manually.

@marianandre @NousResearch @openclaw @papercliping Those accidental agent-experiment days are usually where the real product hides. The outbound plan can wait. What did the agents actually break that you did not expect?

[Day 6] Building In Public CarPappers.com - End of day Today was supposed to be about outbound. It became an AI agents experiment day. I tested Hermes Agent ( @NousResearch ) , Hermes Workspace, @openclaw and @papercliping Most of it went sideways. After a few failed attempts, I went back to Hermes Agent, deployed it on @Hostinger , connected it to my @NotionHQ CRM and gave it a clear mission: Find missing emails and phone numbers for used car professionals by searching the web. It worked better than expected. Not perfectly. Not fast. But it worked. Then I asked the agent to assign the right email template based on the prospect type. That part worked really well. The next step was connecting Gmail so the agent could draft emails directly. That part did not work well enough. So I stopped trying to automate everything and went back to manual execution. Final result: - 51 emails sent - 8 bounced emails - around 3 hours of work for the sending part - a CRM partially enriched by AI - a much clearer view of what should and should not be automated The bounce rate was higher than I wanted. But the workflow still helped me move faster. Main lesson of the day: AI agents are not magic. But when the task is narrow, structured and connected to the right data, they can already be useful. Tomorrow: I’ll clean the prospect database, fix the bad contacts, track replies, and continue the outbound process with a more reliable workflow. CarPappers is now entering the real market feedback phase.

[Day 9] Building in Public CarPappers.com Today, I’m continuing outbound. The angle is slightly different 🔽🔽🔽 Instead of presenting CarPappers as a new sales add-on, I want to position it as something much simpler: A digital health record for used cars. Dealers already collect a lot of information: - maintenance history - invoices - inspection details - photos - documents - warranty info - vehicle specs CarPappers simply turns that into a clean, shareable vehicle file. No big change in the way they work. No complex setup. Just an extra layer of trust they can add before sending a car to a potential buyer. For the seller, it makes the vehicle easier to present. For the buyer, it makes the decision easier to understand. Today’s goal: contact new prospects with this positioning and see if it resonates better. I’ll share what I learn.

[Day 8] Building in Public CarPappers.com Today was all about making outbound faster and more structured. I contacted 44 new prospects. But the biggest progress was not the number itself. The real improvement was rebuilding the CRM workflow behind it. I moved from Notion to twenty.com and rebuilt my sales process around custom objects, statuses, interactions and AI-assisted workflows. The goal was simple: Keep the human in control, but remove as much repetitive work as possible. I now have a CRM setup where: - A company marked as “to source” triggers an AI-assisted enrichment workflow - Public information is searched and summarized - The company is moved to a “to verify” status for human review - Once approved, the next commercial action is created automatically - The right email template is selected based on the prospect type and interaction type - The email subject, body and target address are prepared automatically - When the email is sent, the interaction is timestamped - The company status moves forward in the pipeline automatically The two things I still keep manual for now: 1. Finding the right prospects 2. Sending the actual email That matters. I don’t want a fully automated spam machine. I want a faster, cleaner and more reliable prospecting system. Today, I probably automated around 90% of the operational process while keeping control over the parts where human judgment still matters. The result: I can now contact prospects much faster, with a more consistent process and better tracking. Tomorrow, I’ll keep pushing outbound and start measuring where the first real signals appear. #buildinpublic #startup #b2b #saas #crm #ai

[Day 8] Building in Public CarPappers.com Today marks the start of week 2. After spending the first week clarifying the positioning, building the first examples, and preparing the first outbound approach, the focus now shifts to validation at a larger scale. Today I’m working on three things: 1. Expanding the prospect database with 150 additional used car professionals 2. Prioritizing dealers with visible inventory, especially premium and import sellers I’m also testing three different commercial angles for CarPappers Pro: - Helping dealers present vehicles with a more reassuring file - Keeping a clear record of the documents shared with the buyer - Saving time by centralizing all vehicle paperwork in one place The goal is not to guess which message sounds best. The goal is to contact the market with clear hypotheses and see which problem creates the strongest signal. Just more prospects, a clearer outreach process, and a simple way to create the first real vehicle files manually. #buildinpublic #startup #usedcars #b2b #saas

[Day 7] Building CarPappers.com in Public — Week 1 recap First week is done. And the biggest lesson so far is simple: I don’t want to build another DMS. Car dealers already have tools, spreadsheets, habits, WhatsApp threads, folders, PDFs, and internal processes. CarPappers should not replace all of that. What I want to build is much narrower: A trust file for every used vehicle. Something a dealer can send to a buyer before or during the sale, with: - vehicle information - photos - service history - inspection details - invoices - warranty information - useful documents - a clean PDF export The goal is not to manage the entire dealership. The goal is to make the vehicle easier to trust. This week was mostly about validation, outreach, positioning, and understanding how used car professionals actually handle documents today. Now the question for week 2 is clearer: Will dealers pay to reassure buyers and keep a clean record of the documents shared during the sale? Next step: more conversations, sharper positioning, and testing willingness to pay. No code rush. First: prove the problem is real.